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Miss Pickerell on the Moon 1 review
Ellen MacGregor
Pocket Books, 1980
Miss Pickerell to the rescue!
This is another of the charming adventures of Miss Pickerell. This time, a strange illness threatens the pets of Square Toe County, including Miss Pickerell's beloved cow and her new pet cat Pumpkins. New mold spores have recently been discovered by the crewman of a lunar base, and Miss Pickerell ...
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Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West 345 reviews
Stephen Ambrose
Simon & Schuster, 1997
Undaunted Courage
+ Must Read
+ Extraordinary
+ GREAT AMERICAN JOURNEY - MUST READ LEWIS & CLARK
+ The tale of the Lewis and Clark expedition
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English Passengers: A Novel85 reviews
Matthew Kneale
Anchor, 2001
Very Good Book
+ Hilarious voyage to a remote corner of the world...!
+ Intellectual epic, very good, unusual style, "Dickens" detail
+ The English Invade Paradise
+ Excellent historical fiction
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage391 reviews
Alfred Lansing
Basic Books, 1999
Remedy
+ Good delivery and quality
+ Just Incredible Account ,Absolutely Incredible
+ Amazing Testament into the Power of Leadership
+ Endurance: Shakleton's Voyage
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Amazonia 143 reviews
James Rollins
Harper, 2003
Amazonia is "AWESOME"!!
+ Amazonia? Amazing!
+ Fast Paced Thriller
+ Silly, but fun.
+ Entertaining and Imaginative
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Travels with Charley in Search of America187 reviews
John Steinbeck
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1980
Spending time with Steinbeck
+ Steinbeck's search for America
+ Pleasant, thoughtful reading
+ can't get much better than a Steinbeck
+ State of the Nation
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Victim of the Aurora (Harvest Book)3 reviews
Thomas Keneally
Harvest Books, 2001
Humanity in Isolation
+ A change of pace for people with Shackleton-mania.
This is not really a book of Antarctic exploration. Keneally uses this ploy to show us a group of 26 men who spend many months in complete isolation during arctic darkness. The men have different backgrounds and different professional specialties. An uneven lot, if there ever was one. But, of ...
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Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel (Norton Paperback Fiction) 119 reviews
Jean Rhys
W. W. Norton, 1992
The horror... the horror... Wide Sargasso Sea is a searing indictment
+ moods as varied as the skies over the West Indies
+ The Mystery Woman
+ Since Long Time - Past in the Present
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Travels in West Africa (NG Adventure Classics)10 reviews
Mary Kingsley
National Geographic, 2002
A classic
+ engaging, detailed, and full of wit and spirit
+ *** A light in darkest Africa, circa 1893
+ A classic of travel writing.
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Out of Africa (Modern Library)47 reviews
Isak Dinesen
Modern Library, 1992
"Out of Africa": The Book, the Movie, the Feminist
+ Memoir of Africa
The book, "Out of Africa," is a memoir of the Danish Baroness Karen Blixen's habitation near Nairobi in Kenya from 1914 to 1931 on a fertile 6000-acre coffee plantation, "at the foot of the Ngong Hills" (1992: 3). Blixen writes under the pen-name Isak Dinesen. Karen Blixen went to British East ...
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Travels in West Africa (NG Adventure Classics)10 reviews
Mary Kingsley
National Geographic, 2002
A classic
+ engaging, detailed, and full of wit and spirit
+ *** A light in darkest Africa, circa 1893
+ A classic of travel writing.
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage391 reviews
Alfred Lansing
Basic Books, 1999
Remedy
+ Good delivery and quality
+ Just Incredible Account ,Absolutely Incredible
+ Amazing Testament into the Power of Leadership
+ Endurance: Shakleton's Voyage
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Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel (Norton Paperback Fiction)119 reviews
Jean Rhys
W. W. Norton, 1992
The horror... the horror... Wide Sargasso Sea is a searing indictment
+ moods as varied as the skies over the West Indies
+ The Mystery Woman
+ Since Long Time - Past in the Present
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Amazonia143 reviews
James Rollins
Harper, 2003
Amazonia is "AWESOME"!!
+ Amazonia? Amazing!
+ Fast Paced Thriller
+ Silly, but fun.
+ Entertaining and Imaginative
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Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West345 reviews
Stephen Ambrose
Simon & Schuster, 1997
Undaunted Courage
+ Must Read
+ Extraordinary
+ GREAT AMERICAN JOURNEY - MUST READ LEWIS & CLARK
+ The tale of the Lewis and Clark expedition
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Miss Pickerell on the Moon1 review
Ellen MacGregor
Pocket Books, 1980
Miss Pickerell to the rescue!
This is another of the charming adventures of Miss Pickerell. This time, a strange illness threatens the pets of Square Toe County, including Miss Pickerell's beloved cow and her new pet cat Pumpkins. New mold spores have recently been discovered by the crewman of a lunar base, and Miss Pickerell ...
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Victim of the Aurora (Harvest Book)3 reviews
Thomas Keneally
Harvest Books, 2001
Humanity in Isolation
+ A change of pace for people with Shackleton-mania.
This is not really a book of Antarctic exploration. Keneally uses this ploy to show us a group of 26 men who spend many months in complete isolation during arctic darkness. The men have different backgrounds and different professional specialties. An uneven lot, if there ever was one. But, of ...
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Travels with Charley in Search of America187 reviews
John Steinbeck
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1980
Spending time with Steinbeck
+ Steinbeck's search for America
+ Pleasant, thoughtful reading
+ can't get much better than a Steinbeck
+ State of the Nation
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Out of Africa (Modern Library)47 reviews
Isak Dinesen
Modern Library, 1992
"Out of Africa": The Book, the Movie, the Feminist
+ Memoir of Africa
The book, "Out of Africa," is a memoir of the Danish Baroness Karen Blixen's habitation near Nairobi in Kenya from 1914 to 1931 on a fertile 6000-acre coffee plantation, "at the foot of the Ngong Hills" (1992: 3). Blixen writes under the pen-name Isak Dinesen. Karen Blixen went to British East ...
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English Passengers: A Novel85 reviews
Matthew Kneale
Anchor, 2001
Very Good Book
+ Hilarious voyage to a remote corner of the world...!
+ Intellectual epic, very good, unusual style, "Dickens" detail
+ The English Invade Paradise
+ Excellent historical fiction
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